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Unprecedented climate extremes marked last decade, says UN
2013-07-03 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: If you think the world is warming and the weather getting nastier, you're right, according to the United Nations agency committed to understanding weather and climate. The World Meteorological Organization says the planet "experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes" in the ten years from 2001 to 2010, the warmest decade since the start of modern measurements in 1850. Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global warming, with more national temperature records...
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World suffered unprecedented climate extremes in past decade: WMO
2013-07-03 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records began in the 1850s, with 2010 the hottest, according to the study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The number of daily heat records far outstripped lows. It said many extremes...
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Climate extremes are 'unprecedented'
2013-07-03 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Earth experienced unprecedented recorded climate extremes during the decade 2001-2010, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. Its new report says more national temperature records were reported broken than in previous decades. There was an increase in deaths from heatwaves over that decade. This was particularly pronounced during the extreme summers in Europe in 2003 and in the Russian Federation during 2010. But despite the decade being the second wettest since 1901...
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UN: There Has Been Unprecedented Global Warming Since 2000
2013-07-03 08:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The planet has warmed faster since the turn of the century than ever recorded, almost doubling the pace of sea-level increase and causing a 20-fold jump in heat-related deaths, the United Nations said. The decade through 2010 was the warmest for both hemispheres and for land and sea, the UNs World Meteorological Organization said today in an e-mailed report examining climate trends for the beginning of the millennium. Almost 94 percent of countries logged their warmest 10 years on record, it...
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World Suffered Unprecedented Climate Extremes in Past Decade: WMO
2013-07-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records began in the 1850s, with 2010 the hottest, according to the study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The number of daily heat records far outstripped lows. It said many extremes...
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